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from which they soon learn to push out- 

 wards and inwards. These mothers with 

 the wicker basket over them, are to be 

 placed against a hot wall, at the back of 

 the kitchen fire, or in any other W' arm situ- 

 ation, where the heat shall not exceed 80 

 degrees of Fahrenheit. 



" \Yhen the chickens are a week old, 

 they are to be carried with the mother to a 

 grass plat for feeding, and kept w^arm by 

 a tin tube filled with hot water, which will 

 continue sufficiently warm for about three 

 hours, when the hot water is to be renewed. 

 Towards the evening the mothers are to 

 be again placed against the hot wall. 

 Their food as before observed, is to con- 

 sist of coarse barley meal, steamed till 

 quite soft ; steamed potatoes minced quite 

 small, and occasionally pellets of coarse 

 wheaten flour : these articles may be given 

 to them alternately." This description is 

 certainly superior to mine, in variety of 

 particulars and precision, if not in real 

 use. 



